The Tale will vary from time to time. They are told in Clint Howard's words. Look for "I Want to Tell This Little Tale", Clint Howard's life told through his tales and jokes coming this year. It is taking a little longer than expected.......oh well.  It will be available first through this website, so please check back regularly. Also check out the April Old Time Herald for an article about Clint  Enjoy.

That ain't the guy that scares me

I've never been afraid of the fella that comes up to me and says I got an instrument that Bill Monroe played or Elvis Presley played and I can play it. That ain't the guy that scares me. It's the ole boy comes up and I say 'can you play music' and he says 'well I love it, but I don't play much'. You better watch him. He'll show you things you ain't never seen on the instrument. I was playing music once at a fiddlers convention and I never have won much at a fiddlers convention but they's an old lady, she had a dress on that was a draggin the floor, she played the fiddle.  And she had a feller with her that was a pickin the banjer, he's her son I guess. He looked like he weighed 300 pounds and he had an ole time banjer. And he walked out on the stage and they set down. I looked around at Mister Tom (Clarence) Ashley and I said "we won't have no trouble out of them people". We was wantin to win the band contest. It paid a whole lotta money. Well, they set down there and the ole lady started playin that fiddle, I ain't never heard nothin to beat that and that ole boy went to pickin the banjer and he's a puttin notes in it I didn't know people could git. And all at once here come a little girl, she looked like she's about seven or eight years old and she had on a little pair a shoes that buttoned up, they didn't zip up or lace up, they buttoned up. She walked out on that stage and went to tap dancin. I didn't know nobody could move their feet like that.   I wasn't scared when they first come out there, but after I seen that little girl puttin  that tap dancin into it and that ole lady and that boy, well they'd done a lot of practicin at home, I'll tell you that right now. They played a complete song and walked off with the $150 that we was all supposed to win.